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Dear all:

Yahoo just informed me that in principle, GoodRelations and RDFa can be 
used to augment eBay pages so that they will show up  in www.yahoo.com 
with product details, prices, and store info, even though eBay does not 
itself support RDFa.

The eBay individual auction pages use murky HTML 4.01 markup; that would 
require commitment from eBay to clean up. And the power seller pages at 
least use XHTML 1.0 transitional as a doctype, but also contain flaws in 
the header / template, so even a well-minded seller could not include 
RDFa in a fully compliant way.

But Yahoo will be tolerant to that:

Quote:

"Our extractor does attempt to pull valid RDFa out of murky pages. If 
eBay embedded GoodRelations RDFa in their "tag soup" pages, we would 
extract it (unless the page is *very* badly malformed, to the point 
that it defeats out extractor codec completely)."

So I am waiting for an eBay powerseller to try the recipe at

http://tr.im/rAbN

Best

Martin Hepp

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martin hepp
e-business & web science research group
universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen

e-mail:  mhepp at computer.org
phone:   +49-(0)89-6004-4217
fax:     +49-(0)89-6004-4620
www:     http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group)
         http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal)
skype:   mfhepp 
twitter: mfhepp

Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data!
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Webcast:
http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/

Recipe for Yahoo SearcMonkey:
http://tr.im/rAbN

Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: 
"Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology"
http://tinyurl.com/semtech-hepp

Overview article on Semantic Universe:
http://tinyurl.com/goodrelations-universe

Project page:
http://purl.org/goodrelations/

Resources for developers:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations

Tutorial materials:
CEC'09 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey 
http://tr.im/grcec09

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